Word: faded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Essentially Lonely. Reality intrudes all too soon at the top of the gangplank at 57th Street and the Hudson River. Visions of beautiful secretaries, lonely models and experience-hungry Vassar girls fade at the sight of manicured matrons, overweight men, blue-grey hair, pancaked wrinkles. The few under-30s seem swallowed up in a sea of over-40s and over...
...next day was election day, and smiles were much scarcer. Besides, by now the boys were more accustomed to girls in their classes and libraries, and the mixer-shine of the first day was beginning to fade...
...drawings, watercolors and wash and chalk sketches of great master painters are rarely seen. They fade easily on exposure to light and so are customarily kept in museum storerooms, viewable only upon special appointment. A great pity, as this collection amply illustrates. The 300 selections present a remarkable range of style and subject and a surprising spectrum of soft colors (the chalks and washes) that often show off the sharp eye and skeletal strength of the artist better than works done in larger compass...
...Fade Out. The largest independent U.S.. tube manufacturer, National Video suffered the classic one-product-company disaster. Seizing on glowing industry predictions of a surge in color TV sales, Cole decided to phase out production of black-and-white tubes, on which he was losing money, and switch to color. In 1965, he floated a $12,095,000 stock issue to bankroll expansion. Orders for color tubes from Motorola, Admiral and other set makers poured in, rocketing 1966 sales to $89 million. Profits reached $7,300,000 compared with the previous year...
...million. According to Massachusetts statute, the capitalization requirement is determined by the population of the area where the bank is located. On that basis, Unity should have been able to capitalize at $450,000, not $1 million. "They figured we wouldn't be able to meet that and eventually fade into the woodwork," Sneed said of the board's action. "But we wouldn't be stopped by the restrictions they put on us." Demand for Unity stock was so great that eventually its board of directors requested an increase in capitalization to $1.2 million...